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Cuba condemns interference in China’s internal affairs

MINREX CHINA

Over the last few weeks we have noted with concern the succession of violent demonstrations and acts of vandalism in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, encouraged from abroad, attempting to disrupt the political, economic and social order, and create insecurity in the People’s Republic of China.

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Brazil: The dangers of being young and Black

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Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery (1888). The Black and mixed-race population represents more than half of the country’s inhabitants, 55.8% of the total, according to statistics from the National Household Sample Census (PNAD), of 2018, but it is also the most vulnerable portion, earning the least and facing the most unemployment, those with the least access to education and health, with lower salaries, even when they have the same level of education as others.

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Evo Morales, providing leadership in times of adversity

Evo MOrales

While other South American leaders stood idly by, and delayed operations to fight fires days after the flames began to spread across the Brazilian Amazon, the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, personally led efforts to confront the tragedy in the area of Chiquitanía, located in the country’s southeast, between Gran Chaco and Amazonía.

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Díaz-Canel expresses Cuba’s readiness to cooperate with the Bahamas

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Given the loss of human life and devastating damage caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, the President of Cuba´s Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, extended condolences to “the people of the Bahamas and families of the victims,” in a message to the Prime Minister of the island nation.

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Díaz-Canel receives Canadian Foreign Minister

Canel Canada

The President of Cuba´s Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, yesterday August 28, received Canada’s Foreign Minister, the Honorable Christya Freeland, who is making a working visit to our country.

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Despite the blockade, three million tourists have visited Cuba

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Despite campaigns organized and directed by the United States government to prevent the arrival of tourists to our country, as of August 15, Cuba had welcomed three million international visitors, thus far this year. That so many people have chosen the island is evidence of the confidence and recognition Cuba has achieved as a travel destination, offering not only natural and cultural attractions, but also security.

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Díaz-Canel tours recently renovated facilities in Havana

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Early this morning, August 28, The President of Cuba´s Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, today toured recently renovated educational facilities in Havana.The school will open its doors September 2 with an enrollment of 360 students and a full staff.

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A great effort to ensure the successful opening of 2019-2020 school year

A great effort to ensure the successful opening of 2019-2020 school year

The country has made a great effort to provide essential resources to guarantee a successful opening of the academic year. “Given the economic situation we face,” Education Minister Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella stated during a press conference, “we have insisted on savings, careful use of resources, and extending the useful life of everything we have in our schools, as tasks of the highest priority.”

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Using waste from rice processing to generate energy

Cuba planta electricidad

Cuban experts, with advice from India, have set up a plant that will allow the use of rice husks to generate electricity. The work is being carried out at the Enrique Troncoso mill, the largest in the province, affiliated with the Los Palacios Agroindustrial Enterprise, where this new technology will make it possible to save more than 200 tons of diesel a year.

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Fear of the “other” Argentina

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Trump, Bolsonaro and Macri are trying to coordinate efforts to ensure that on election day, October 27, there will be no “birth of another Argentina”. “Better to walk alone than in bad company,” could be the advice friends give Mauricio Macri these days, the Argentine incumbent President who had a poor showing in the country’s recently held primary elections.